Gray-banded Kingsnake vs. Rock Rattlesnake
The Gray-banded Kingsnake looks much like the Mottled Rock Rattlesnake that shares its limestone slopes (it is thought to mimic it). A: Narrow, barely wider than the neck; round pupils; no pit in the Gray-banded Kingsnake; broad and triangular on a thin neck, with a pit between the eye and the nostril in the Rock Rattlesnake. B: Thin and tapering, no rattle in the Gray-banded Kingsnake; a rattle in the Rock Rattlesnake. C: Clean black bands on blue-grey, often with orange saddles in the Gray-banded Kingsnake; jagged dark crossbands with dark flecks between in the Rock Rattlesnake.
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